T. L. Hood; Jackson Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller



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T. L. Hood. In the public life of the state, T. L. Hood is best known
through his long service as a member of the State Senate. His home is at
Monroe and for many years he has been closely identified with the lumbering
industry and other substantial interests of Northern Louisiana. He is a
physician by profession, and early training, but has not been in practice
for many years.

His father, Whitfield Hood, was born in Georgia, and came to Louisiana in
1842, settling in Jackson Parish, where he became a farmer and lumber
manufacturer. He was proprietor of Hood's Mill, in Jackson Parish, and it
was in that locality that his son, T. L. Hood, was born January 1, 1864.

T. L. Hood gained a good literary education and his early ambition was for a
medical career. He graduated Doctor of Medicine from the University of
Louisville in 1886, and engaged in practice for about ten years. After 1895
he became a merchant, a business he followed for about fifteen years, and
since then has been a lumber manufacturer and dealer. He owns or controls
the output of a number of lumber mills.

Mr. Hood was first elected a member of the State Senate in 1912. He was re-
elected in 1920 and in 1924. The Twenty-ninth Senatorial District, which
elected him, was composed of Jackson and Ouachita parishes. Through his long
legislative experience and proved business ability he has rendered a number
of important services in the legislative program during the past ten years.
He is chairman of the finance committee in the Senate and is a member of the
committee on appropriations, committee on agriculture, committee on
conservation and committee of health and quarantine. Senator Hood's offices
in Monroe are in the Ouachita National Bank Building.

Mr. Hood married Miss Lura B. Hughley, of Dallas, Texas, and to them have
been born seven children: Ruth, Mabel, Lillian, Thomas L. Jr., Ruby, Effie,
and Amos.

Mr. Hood is a Mason, a Knight of Pythias, a member of the Woodmen of the
World and the Methodist Church.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 228, by Henry E. Chambers. Published by
The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.